John R. Shook

Pragmatism (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A concise, reader-friendly overview of pragmatism, the most influential school of American philosophical thought. Pragmatism, America's homegrown philosophy, has been a major intellectual movement for over a century. Unlike its rivals, it reaches well beyond the confines of philosophy into concerns and disciplines as diverse as religion, politics, science, and culture. In this concise, engagingly written overview, John R. Shook describes pragmatism's origins, concepts, and continuing global relevance and appeal. With attention to the movement's original thinkers-Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead-as well as its contemporary proponents, he explains how pragmatism thinks about what is real, what can be known, and what minds are doing. And because of pragmatism's far-reaching impact, Shook shows how its views on reality, truth, knowledge, and cognition coordinate with its approaches to agency, sociality, human nature, and personhood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262372176
• Artikelnr.: 64716285

Autorenporträt

John R. Shook teaches philosophy at Bowie State University in Maryland. He is coeditor of The Blackwell Companion to Pragmatism and Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy, and Pragmatism.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword vii
Preface ix
1 Pragmatism: An Old Name for Newly Confirmed Ideas 1
2 Principles of Pragmatism 21
3 Permanence and Impermanence 39
4 Context and Reality 65
5 Truth in Consequences 89
6 Being and Thinking 115
7 Pragmatism versus Epistemology 139
8 Transactional Knowledge 159
9 Ecological Mentality 181
10 Society, Self, and Mind 205
11 Culture and Person 227
Acknowledgments 243
Glossary 245
Notes 251
Further Reading 267
Index 273